Vehicle wheel



Oct. 19, 1937.y w. I AVERY VEHICLE WHEEL.

Filed July 28, 1936 the cross sectional drawing a vehicle wheel is the wheel during rotation thereof.

c on the wheel hub. end with a conduit s formed within an annular 25 The rim has tyre retaining anges d, d around lplate t secured to the wheel hub on the outside of x its side edges whereby the rimmay support a the side plate b and having an outwardly'dipneumatic tyre of the wire-edge type, and on rected conduit u for connection with the uid one side of the rim the tyre retaining flange d is supply. l

followed by an inwardly depending annular I claim: v 30 ange e which is seated upon an outwardly pro- 1. A vehicle wheel comprising a central hub, a

Patented oct. 19, 1931 i `2,096,293

UNITEDg STATES PATENT OFFICE y' 2,096,293 VEHICLE" WHEEL William Leicester Avery, Twickenham, England y application July es, 1936, serial No. 93,064 m Great 11i-itam my 24, 1935 3` Claims. (Cl. 301-4) 'I'hls invention relates to vehicle wheels. on the side plate b', these two conical surfaces The invention consists in a vehicle wheel incorresponding with each other.

corporating a brake upon each side of the wheel The sideplates b, b' form the outer walls of and having the wheel rim supported by the brake two brake casings u, y provided one on each side 5 .0%SiDS- of the wheel. The inner side walls of the brake 5 The invention also consists in a vehicle wheel casings are constituted by vertical annular according to the preceding paragraph wherein flanges k, lc' provided at the ends of a centrally the bearings for supporting the wheel upon the arranged. cylindrical web m which is co-axial hub are located at the outer side of each brake with the hub n and which flanges Ic, are fol- 10 casing. v lowed at their outer peripheries by outwardly 10 The invention also consists in a vehicle wheel extending circumferential flanges o, o' which having the further features hereinafter deserve to space the side wallsof each, brake from scribed and shown in the accompanying drawing. each other and from the outer peripheries of the In the drawing: brake casings,the two walls, of each brake casing 15 Fig. 1 is a sectional view of a vehicle wheel conbeing secured together by screws p, p'.

structed in accordance with the invention. Y The outer side wall of each brake casing may Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the rim taken on haveradial webs q on its outer surface which the line II--lI of Fig. l; provide additional support for the forces iin- According to one embodiment as illustrated'in posed upon theerim and also promote cooling of provided comprising a im a whichl is carried Each brake casing houses a fluid actuated upon vertical annular side plates b, b provided brake to which the fluid is supplied by an axial one on each side of the wheel and themselves conduit r in the wheel hub having communicacarried at their inner peripheries upon bearings tion with each brake and communicating at one jecting ledge f provided around the outer face of member having an annular flange extending rathe annular supporting plate b at this side of the diaily with respect to said hub, a second member 'wheel and to which plate the rim, at this side of having an annular flange extending radially with the wheel, is secured by axially disposed bolts g, respect to the hub and axially spaced from the 35 the heads h of which engage in recesses i formed first flange, a rim havingone of its extreme peon the rear face of said plate b, while the securrlpheral edges supported upon the rst said ing nuts g' for these bolts engage the outer face member and having the other extreme peripheral of the said flange e. Preferably the inner peedgesupported upon the second said member, an

i0 ripheral surface of the flange e is tapered for inner annular flange member spaced from the 40 engagement with a correspondingly tapered surfirst said flange to form a brake housing between face of the ledge f such that this flange will autothis flange and the said inner flange, another matically tighten upon the ledge as it is secured inner annular flange member spaced from the to the side plate b b'y the bolts. said second flange to form a brake housing be- The tyre retaining flange d' is detachable from tween it and the second flange and bearings sup- 45 the rim by removing the locking pin e when the porting the outer walls of the brake housings rim d' may be rotated. to move peripheraliy 'upon said hub. spaced rings of castellations u, v on the flange 2. A vehicle wheel comprising a central hub, aand rixn out of register with each other as shown member having an annular flange ,extending in Fig. 2. radially from thehub and having an axially and 50 The peripheral edge portion w of the rim to outwardly directed nange near its outer periphwhich the detachable flange d is secured is thickery, a bearing interposed between the hub and ened and the inner surface of this thickened rim the inner periphery of said radial flange, a secportion is of conical'form as also is the surface of ond member having a flange extending radially an outwardly extending circumferential flange :c from the hub and axially spaced from the first 55 10 radial ilanges axially directed ilange of the second said radially ilanged member.

3. A vehicle comprising a central hub, two

axially spaced members each having annum:- anges extending radially-from the hub, a berg lng a radial ilange atfeach end thereof spaced from the adjacent ilrst mentioned radial anges.

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